--- title: "7 Glasses Quotes By Sylvia Plath" description: "7 Glasses quotes by Sylvia Plath. Plus more from Sylvia Plath and more Glasses sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab7/sylvia-plath-149_air_because-wherever-i-sat-on-the-deck-of-a_162677.jpg" --- > [because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/because-wherever-i-sat-on-the-deck-of-a-ship-or-at-a-street-caf-in/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab7/sylvia-plath-149_air_because-wherever-i-sat-on-the-deck-of-a_162677.jpg) > [Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/last-year-a-friend-went-dark-in-a-nervous-city-alone-the-sea-flashing/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8d/sylvia-plath-149_blue_last-year-a-friend-went-dark-in-a-nervou_474206.jpg) > [Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/outcast-on-a-cold-star-unable-to-feel-anything-but-an-awful-helpless/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/754/sylvia-plath-149_astronomy_outcast-on-a-cold-star-unable-to-feel-an_2181322.jpg) > [If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/if-the-body-is-a-temple-then-tattoos-are-its-stained-glass-windows/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/501/sylvia-plath-149_body_if-the-body-is-a-temple-then-tattoos-are_2317855.jpg) > [I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-may-never-be-happy-but-tonight-i-am-content-nothing-more-than-an/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c8/sylvia-plath-149_blueberries_i-may-never-be-happy-but-tonight-i-am-co_2343526.jpg) > [Cold glass, how you insert yourself Between myself and myself. I scratch like a cat. The blood that runs is dark fruit-…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/cold-glass-how-you-insert-yourself-between-myself-and-myself-i/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/206/sylvia-plath-149_blood_cold-glass-how-you-insert-yourself-betwe_2388080.jpg) > [This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/this-is-newness-every-little-tawdry-obstacle-glass-wrapped-and/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56a/sylvia-plath-149_awful_this-is-newness-every-little-tawdry-obst_2775757.jpg) ## Other authors on Glasses ## More by Sylvia Plath > [“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/it-was-a-queer-sultry-summer-the-summer-they-electrocuted-the/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-love-life-but-it-is-hard-and-i-have-so-much-so-very-much-to-learn/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [... These are my hands My knees. I may be skin and bone, Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman. ... --Lady Lazarus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/these-are-my-hands-my-knees-i-may-be-skin-and-bone-nevertheless-i-am/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/sure-i-m-dramatic-and-sloppily-semi-cynical-and-semi-sentimental-but/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/people-were-made-of-nothing-so-much-as-dust-and-i-couldn-t-see-that/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [“I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-couldn-t-stand-the-idea-of-a-woman-having-to-have-a-single-pure/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-saw-the-gooseflesh-on-my-skin-i-did-not-know-what-made-it-i-was-not/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-have-to-live-my-life-and-it-is-the-only-one-i-ll-ever-have/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [“The city had faded my tan, though. I looked yellow as a Chinaman. Ordinarily, I would have been nervous about my dress and my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/the-city-had-faded-my-tan-though-i-looked-yellow-as-a-chinaman/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/joy-show-joy-enjoy-then-others-will-be-joyful/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/a-million-years-of-evolution-eric-said-bitterly-and-what-are-we/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ --from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", written 1962”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-have-stitched-life-into-me-like-a-rare-organ-from-three-women-a/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/it-is-so-much-safer-not-to-feel-not-to-let-the-world-touch-me/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [“Flute Notes from a Reedy Pond" Now coldness comes sifting down, layer after layer, To our bower at the lily root. Overhead the old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/flute-notes-from-a-reedy-pond-now-coldness-comes-sifting-down-layer/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [“The most saddening thing is to admit that I am not in love. I can only love (if that means self denial - or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/the-most-saddening-thing-is-to-admit-that-i-am-not-in-love-i-can-only/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/glasses/sylvia-plath/#itemlist", "name": "7 Glasses Quotes By Sylvia Plath", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sylvia Plath" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/because-wherever-i-sat-on-the-deck-of-a-ship-or-at-a-street-caf-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab7/sylvia-plath-149_air_because-wherever-i-sat-on-the-deck-of-a_162677.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab7/sylvia-plath-149_air_because-wherever-i-sat-on-the-deck-of-a_162677.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab7/sylvia-plath-149_air_because-wherever-i-sat-on-the-deck-of-a_162677.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting…” — Sylvia Plath", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his inner ear so he could leave this world as he'd entered it through the undependable irrational influence of water. -Kevin Jeffery Clark It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sylvia Plath" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/last-year-a-friend-went-dark-in-a-nervous-city-alone-the-sea-flashing/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8d/sylvia-plath-149_blue_last-year-a-friend-went-dark-in-a-nervou_474206.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8d/sylvia-plath-149_blue_last-year-a-friend-went-dark-in-a-nervou_474206.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8d/sylvia-plath-149_blue_last-year-a-friend-went-dark-in-a-nervou_474206.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted…” — Sylvia Plath", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. 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